The girl who played Vicki, the black girl...

Except, in South Africa?

"Black" means something different in places outside of the United States.

For example, in some places, Black Americans are "White."

In South Africa, Coloured is not Black.

In Brazil... it is even way too complicated. (How exactly is "pardos" defined outside of Brazil?)

It really is not that clear cut and simple. Race, as utilized in this thread, is based upon societal categorization on phenotype. I would assume Ms. McClure's racial classification would depend upon the society that places the classification. (It's much easier to refer to her as an actress, or as a South African or Canadian, than to bring this whole topic up.)

*edit* All of which is really not even much to do with my original smart-ass comments: I found it offensive that the OP needlessly pointed out her skin color as much as I have distaste for Americans placing their value systems on the rest of the world. *edit*

(I don't know why my first sentence didn't make sense, I guess I shouldn't type and watch Suits at the same time.)

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I thought about it a little more... and I think I will explain farther for no real reason at all.

In America, "Black is Black." In fact, it seems that recent evidence has shown that, although Black Americans are disproportionately discriminated against, the darker they are, the worse they are treated. But that doesn't mean it is this way everywhere. In South Africa, many people who are Coloured feel as though they were "not White enough" during Apartheid, and they are "not Black enough" under the ANC.

Just as recent information has been uncovered that darker skinned Black Americans receive harsher penalties from the Justice System, even less pay for the same work, less employment opportunities and less mobility socially and occupationally... it has also been noted that Coloureds in South Africa are much more disproportionately targeted by the South African justice system and labor conditions.


And, as I stated previously... Black Americans are not Black Africans. In some African polities, Black Americans are classified as "White" - because they behave, culturally, more like Europeans.

It is all really terribly complicated. It definitely cannot be summarized into a catch phrase any more than the Tea Party can resolve the problem of unemployment with a bumper sticker.

Would it be ok for Africans to make trite, definitive statements such as:
Whoopie Goldberg is White...
Wesley Snipes is White...
Dave Chapelle is White...
Barack Obama is White...
Cornell West is White...
Charlie Rangel is White...
Herman Cain is White...
Lisa Bonet is White...
Al Sharpton is White...

I know that was phrased as a question, but I could not find the proper place to put a question mark. So, here it is: ?

Of course it wouldn't... because we know, in America, that anyone with "Black" features is treated as if they were Black, and not given the same privileges (re: not equal treatment) as Whites. In fact, majority of the people that try to point out President Obama's mixed background tend to have a racist motivation behind this point, just as they did with Medgar Evers, W.E.B. Dubois, Huey Newton, and Malcolm X.

Don't try to dismiss my comments that a person of "Mixed" ethnicity from South Africa may be Coloured and not Black buy typing a simple declarative sentence that makes no mention of the nuance of the complications of social stratification of race, and the nuance of different cultures towards this stratification. kthxbai

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As an unattractive, overweight girl who neither drinks nor smokes, my chances of surviving a horror movie are pretty good. Except Silence of the Lambs. My size 14 a$$ would be putting the lotion on the skin for that movie psychopath.

YESSSS! That was the exact same thing I thought, how she looks a lot like Rihanna, I'm thinking those might be fake color contacts though she wears, because although her eyes are beautiful, black people always have brown eyes - not green or blue? maybe then she's mixed-race....